Mythopoeic thought
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title:
Mythopoeic thought
text:
Mythopoeic thought is a hypothetical stage of human thought preceding modern thought, proposed by Henri Frankfort and his wife Henriette Antonia Frankfort in the 1940s, based on their interpretation of evidence from archaeology and cultural anthropology. According to this proposal, there was a "mythopoeic" stage, in which humanity did not think in terms of generalizations and impersonal laws: instead, humans saw each event as an act of will on the part of some personal being. This way of thinkin
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Hypothetical stage of human thought
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythopoeic_thought
date created:
2007-05-26T23:01:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T13:42:52Z
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